When Joe Mason agrees to transport a priceless gold basin to its new owner, the ex-MI5 operative arrives only to find the recipient dead – brutally murdered in cold blood. To catch the killer, Mason must uncover the relic’s secrets.

But he’s not the only one with an interest. The Guild of Night, a dangerous and vengeful cult, is determined to bring the Church to its knees – and the basin holds the power to do just that.

In a frantic cat-and-mouse chase across the country, Mason battles to unravel the conspiracy before devastating power falls into the wrong hands.

For the Guild of Night will protect itself at all costs, and its members have secrets they are willing to kill for…

But, in Mason, have they met their match?

Joe Mason and the team are back for their third instalment. This time just when they thought they have left the dangerous life behind them and started a straightforward security company the team is once again involved in a high-stakes game.

Their easy security job was to deliver an important artifact to a professor but when they arrive the professor is being attacked and left for dead by a group of thugs. Turns out the item is priceless and someone wants it and others that are out there and they are willing to kill for them.

Joe and the team can’t stand by whilst valuable, historical, and religious relics are stolen and people killed for them so they need to work together and fast, working out the clues as to where the other items are and who wants them so badly.

It was fantastic to be back with the team. I loved the two previous books, The Vatican Secret and The Demon Code and so eagerly jumped at the chance to read book three.

Just like the others, The Midnight Conspiracy is fast-paced, pure adrenaline, and adventurous the whole way through. Sometimes it feels like the action will never stop which I loved. I also love how well the characters work together and know one another. This is a team not to be messed with, though this time they are certainly up against it.

Overall, if you are looking for a book that will keep you on edge and clawing at the pages then this is the one to pick up. It is just non-stop action from beginning to end.

David Leadbeater has published more than 40 novels and sold over a million Amazon Kindle e-books. He has now signed for a major publisher – Harper Collins/Avon Publishing, who will release the first two books of a new series in 2022, followed by two more in 2023.

All 30 parts of the Matt Drake series were international bestsellers and continue to top the charts in 2022. The first part of his Relic Hunters series won the inaugural Amazon Kindle Storyteller award in 2017. For a chronological reading order of the Matt Drake, Alicia Myles and Disavowed series’ please visit his website.